Views along the Ural River showing Atyrau City in Western Kazakhstan. In recent years it has become quite a 'green' place

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Views along the Ural River showing Atyrau City in Western Kazakhstan. In recent years it has become quite a 'green' place with increased investment in irrigation and tree planting funded by revenue from the Oil and gas fields in the nearby Caspian Sea

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Size: 3354px × 5050px
Location: Atyrau City, western Kazakhstan in Asia, part of former Soviet Union
Photo credit: © Robert Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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